[pdpi]

Mostly the latter.

There's another aspect to it, though — parent was in a navy ship, surrounded by sailors. That's a very specific population, in a very specific situation, and it's not necessarily true that that's the right crowd or situation to care (though it baffles me how a sailor at sea might look up at the stars without being in awe of the thought "damn, my predecessors navigated based on those")

[Hilliard_Ohiooo]

I'm just one experience but my view was aside from a passing comment on a shooting star no one cared. Much more inteted in playing PlayStation, porn and seeking liquor on board.